Shutdown, Restart, Log-off, Hibernate, Lock Workstation, Switch User Start Tiles for Windows 11 and Server 2025

I created one script that creates "Metro" tiles for popular "power" links with new icons to appear on the start menu for Windows 10/11 and respective server releases.

 Shutdown and Lock Workstation Pinned to Windows 11 start menu

 

My Custom Metro Style Icons, search any of these icons to pin to Start menu for Win11.

Windows 10 Start menu

This PowerShell script installs a Lock Workstation, Switch User, Logoff, 
Restart, Hibernate and Shutdown tile with new Metro styled icons on the Start screen for Windows 8+.

Purchase $2.25 USD, Download and Install 

Download PowerIconsWin11-PU.zip

License:

Free for personal use. 

A commercial license is $2.25 USD for each Windows user account. 

Bulk discount available. License and Disclaimers listed in scripts.
Fines of minimum $10,000 USD per user, for illegal commercial use.

             Contact metadataconsult [(at)] gmail.com for a commercial license.

Instructions: 

Purchase $2.25 USD, Download and Install 

1. Unzip. 

2.  Run PowerShell as Administrator

1.Press the Windows Key.

2.Type "PowerShell".

3.Instead of just clicking it, press Ctrl + Shift + Enter.

Alternatively: Right-click "Windows PowerShell" and select Run as Administrator. 

3. Type PowerIconsWin11-PU.ps1, press return to run. 

In PowerShell Editor (ISE), press green arrow to run the script.

1st time PowerShell users will get a "...running scripts is disable..." error. In PowerShell type this command: Set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted Just re-run the script using green arrow and it will work.

4. Completed.

If you see, the above light green messages in the console area of the PowerShell ISE, the you have successfully run the script. 

If you see red, then that process step failed and you may have re-run the Powershell IDE with administrator privileges.  Use Windows Search for PowerShell, right-click and run with Administrative privileges, see article here.

Update for WINDOWS 8/10/11 Users

If the above script does not work, contained in the zip file are 2 additional customized for Windows 8.1+, which has enables execution of scripts rights.

1. From the start menu, right-click 
2. Select "Command Prompt (Admin)"
3. In the Command Prompt type-> PowerShell win81only-runme1st.ps1
   
   
4. Now you see the following results windows appear and close automatically. You see a bit of red text, that's okay since in this context it's a warning.
   
   
5. Success, you should now see the following tiles on the start screen if you click the down arrow to reach Apps.

   

   Windows 8 Start Menu Apps

   
   

Windows 10 Menu

Windows 11 Menu, you must manually search and pin to Start Menu!

PayPal McAffee Payment Phishing Email with no subject

For the record, this is a PayPal McAffee Payment phishing email attempt that is recently going around, with no subject. Opening the attachment Book4.xlxs spreadsheet reveals an image with no link, just a phone number.

What to do?  Report them, goto bottom of page. 

From: Prity Dhara <prity577dhara790@gmail.com> Subject:  PayPal INVOICE NO: TOLL-FREE: +1 (803) 339-3084 FEBRUARY 24, 2026 The payment was successfully completed, and the amount has been automatically withdrawn from your account. Refund Help Line: +1 (803) 339-3084 Item McAfee PC Security (1 Year Subscription) Price $539.42 Total: $539.42 A payment of USD 539.42 has been initiated and will be charged to your account within 24 hours. If you did not authorize this charge, please contact our support team right away for assistance. Contact Support: +1 (803) 339-3084

PHISHING LINKs;

1. Phone number

How to tell this is a Phishing email?

1. Check email address in full, if it's not from originating company then it's phishing.
2. Hover over all links in email, if it's not from the company's website then forget it.
3. The best way is to 

How to examine Email Message Source?

Now let's look at message source

1. Outlook.com->Actions->View Message Source. 
2. Gmail.com->More (down arrow to top right)->Show original.

Check for suspicious links, anything that does not originate from source domain, like apple.com.

Report Phishing Email (not as Spam)

1. Outlook.com->Junk (at Top)->Phishing Scam
2. Gmail.com->More (down-arrow to top right)->Report Phishing 

Report Phishing to Google

If you have received this email, take further action by

1. https://www.google.com/safebrowsing/report_phish/

Report phishing at Microsoft and government agencies

1. http://www.microsoft.com/security/online-privacy/phishing-faq.aspx

Bitwarden, Lastpass, and Dashlane not so secure after all, each had vulnerabilities

The team at Applied Cryptography Group at ETH Zurich conducted a study to scrutinize the security architecture of three popular password manager providers: Bitwarden, Lastpass, and Dashlane. Between them, they serve around 60 million users and have a 23% market share. The researchers demonstrated 12 attacks on Bitwarden, 7 on LastPass, and 6 on Dashlane.

Source:  3 popular password managers are less secure than promised - Futurity

Create a password that avoids repeated characters, excludes sequential patterns, and uses common symbols permitted by online‑banking security rules